Networks of Influence?

Ngaire Woods is Professor of International Political Economy at Oxford University and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford. Her recent books include The Politics of Global Regulation (edited with Walter Mattli, Princeton University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006), Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program (edited with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007) and Making Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (edited with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007). Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is Political Economy Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Deputy Director of the Partnership for the Americas Commission. His research focuses on the emerging economies, and the role of banking and finance and global governance. He has published many articles on the political economy of reform and global governance and has a forthcoming book Waiting for the Barbarians: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World (Cornell University Press, 2009).

• Introduction: Introduction: Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order ; 1. The G20: A Practitioner's Perspective ; 2. The G20 After Eight Years: How Effective a Vehicle for Developing-Country Influence? ; 3. Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in East Asian Financial Cooperation ; 4. Voice for the Weak: ECOSOC ad hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict ; 5. The Commission for Africa: A View through the Prism of Networks ; 6. Africa's G4 Network ; 7. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries' Finance Ministers Network ; 8. Networking of Senior Budget Officials ; 9. The Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies and its Central Bankers' Networks ; Conclusion: Networks of Influence?